I had to read the story twice to be sure I understood it properly. After the second time I read it, the absurdity of the situation let me to think about the fragility and absurdity of human life. I also wished nothing like that would ever happen again. My wish, however, was promptly…

A few months ago, at the beginning of the semester, one of my students told me, “I already studied philosophy in my native country and I didn’t like it.” And recently, at the beginning of the summer session, another student (from a different country), told me something similar. In…

At a recent meeting with a group of new friends, one of them (whom I just briefly met once before) compared with Google, but I don’t know if that was a good or a bad thing. Perhaps it was a compliment, perhaps it was not.